INTERNET AMUSEMENTS.

Type the words “kosher tax” into your favorite search engine and be amazed by the inexhaustible fountain of gushing stupidity you have turned on.

Find the nearest packaged food product and look up its history on line. Follow the trail back to its antecedents and their antecedents. You win the game if you hit the Holy Roman Empire with less than ten minutes’ worth of digging.

Find your old high school on Google Street View and see how much of the graffiti you can read.

What is the proportion of male to female heads of state in constitutional monarchies today? The Internet could tell you, you know.

If you have something to write, use a mechanical typewriter for one day, and see how much more work you can get done on a machine that cannot connect to Facebook, show funny cat videos, or search the Internet for the words “kosher tax.”